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Kimm Curran

@kimmcurran.bsky.social
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she/her •medievalist • monastic landscapes • experiential heritage • neurodiversity & archaeology • medieval women religious • creator #muntastic #nunscapes • SFF nerd #AuDHD Ally 🏳️‍⚧️🌈 🔗https://hcommons.org/members/kimmcurran

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Archaeology Scotland @archscot.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
🏛️ The Scottish Archaeology Month 2025 programme is live! 👉 Check it out and start planning your September: www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/events/list/ Thanks to @hisenvscot for their support. #ScotArchMonth #HESsupported #archaeologyscotland #communityarchaeology #scottisharchaeology
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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This is a really great article about something I've been going through a lot lately (Hanson and Gaiman among others). There seems to be a massive trend of creators turning out to be utterly terrible people.
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 14/07/2025
🏺 Last month, I stepped down from my role as Research Officer for the Enabled Archaeology Foundation after three years of volunteering. My last act as a committee member was to contribute to a new guide for disability inclusion for BAJR, which you can now view online! www.bajr.org/wp-content/u...
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NTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Well done to all the @uofglasgow.bsky.social archaeology students and staff for all their input today for the #Glencoe and #Achnacon open day. Sound scapes, poems, artefact displays, stories, hands on, and digging. @n-t-s.bsky.social @eddiecstewart.bsky.social @lizzierobertson.bsky.social
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Kimm Curran @kimmcurran.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Amazing field school group and grateful to have been part of it!
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Dr Edward Stewart @eddiecstewart.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
@archscot.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social @nts-archaeology.bsky.social collaborate to bring this project together. Our team comprises staff from these institutions as well as students from @uofglasgow.bsky.social and volunteers from the local area and further afield.
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Kimm Curran @kimmcurran.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
What an incredible experience at the Glencoe Field School team from Glasgow. Sensory walks, soundscapes, squelchy bogs, & troweling. So grateful -also- to have been included in Open Day creative installation. Such a wonderful team to be a part of. #Archaeology #GlasgowUniversity #Scotland #Glencoe
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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I need your support to keep BISH going. I need 2000 (two thousand) people to join the Patreon at £1 a month. That would pay me to work on BISH for two days a week. I need a pay rise, can you help? www.bishuk.com/support/
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Thousands of young people visit here everyday to get answers about sex and relationships. Be a part of BISH and help keep this vital resource free and available for everyone. Over the years I’ve had a...
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Dig It! @digitscotland.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
In Fife, @mafs-scot.bsky.social‬ are excavating the 12th-century Lindores Abbey, which has a long tradition of distilling 🥃 Visit the site from 21 June to 4 July or head to their Open Day on 3 July for site tours and a showcase of the finds: www.digitscotland.com/events/monas... #ScotlandDigs2025
Several people in high-vis looking at a person talking near a trench
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The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
🚨 Sunday 15th is the LAST DAY of the June dig in Govan Old's 1,500-year-old graveyard! ⛏️ See the University of Glasgow Archaeology excavations between c. 11am-4pm for a FREE tour of the early medieval trenches; it's the perfect complement to our Viking-Age carved stones inside our A-listed church.
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Kimm Curran @kimmcurran.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
What a great visit at the end of the first week of @mafs-scot.bsky.social at Lindores Abbey.
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Kimm Curran @kimmcurran.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
And so it begins! Four weeks with students & the amazing monastic archaeology field school team @alisonibeach.bsky.social @bh-archaeology.bsky.social & Derek Hall. Come see us at Lindores Abbey! @mafs-scot.bsky.social
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 08/06/2025
“Nearly half of neurodivergent people are more likely to rely on public transport to travel for healthcare appointments compared to their neurotypical peers, with disruptions to transport services potentially creating adverse health outcomes for ND people.” www.autistica.org.uk/news/public-...
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New report: How to make public transport more accessible for neurodivergent people | Autistica
Autistica launches a new report on how to make public transport more accessible for neurodivergent people.
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Kimm Curran @kimmcurran.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I feel seen. 😬
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Monastic Archaeology Field School- Scotland @mafs-scot.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We are back! It's our prep week and we are doing all sorts of organising, washing up, and getting ready to welcome our new cohort of field school students next week. Happy, shiny hard hats are ready! @lindoresabbey.bsky.social #Archaeology #FieldSchool #LindoresAbbey #Fife #Scotland
Yellow hard hats lined up on a blue tarp on green grass.
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Kimm Curran @kimmcurran.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Always find joy in David’s observations and short poems. #TinyJoys
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Prof Nicki Whitehouse @fossilbeetle.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Are you interested in re-wilding? We have a questionnaire on re-wilding and the historic environment open, and keen to hear from ecologists, land managers, and archaeological practitioners. Access the questionnaire here - uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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WotSeries ❤️📖📺🤞 @wotseries.com · 01/06/2025
We want this show to continue. Please finish the story. #SaveWOT #TheWheelOfTime youtu.be/XMJmOXA8PrM?...
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Why You Want The Wheel of Time Show to Continue? #SaveWOT
Fans of The Wheel of Time tell us why they want the show to continue #SaveWOT: https://savewot.com Sign the petition: https://savewot.com/take-action/save-wheel-of-time-petition/ Editor: Crystal Sherbondy End credits: @UnravelingthePattern
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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Pryde Month!
"two Novices were discoverede "Tongue-inge" in the vestibule, Sister. They are to be Confinede to month of Silent Contemplaytion"
"Very Goode Sister"
"Do you know what "Tongue-ing" is, Sister?"
"No Sister"
"Nor I"
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"That will be all, Sister"
"Very goode Sister"
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
This is... So much worse than I could have dreamed?
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Kimm Curran @kimmcurran.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Rachel is amazing - give her a follow! #Archaeology #HistorySky #Heritage
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Kimm Curran @kimmcurran.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Very, very awesome things happening with this project! Cannot wait to see what unfolds.
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Kimm Curran @kimmcurran.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Wonderful- simply wonderful. Autistic people and their special interests often get pushed aside, but this is just pure joy. Encouragement and allowing us to be who we are - with our special interests - can make a real difference to us and the world. #TinyJoys
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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Are you a neurodivergent researcher who uses archives? We want to hear from you! We will be running our 1st Divergent Minds in the Archive workshop at Imperial War Museum on 4th July, 10-4.15. More info👇🏻. Sign up here lnkd.in/eUFBQg3p. Closing date for applications June 4th #skyhistorians
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Neurodivergent experiences of archives - call for workshop participants
Are you a (UK-based) neurodivergent researcher who has used archives in your work? Or an archive professional who would like to inform discussions on neurodivergent user access? Or a neurodivergent archive professional who can offer insights into accessibility?
As part of the EDI Caucus funded project 'Divergent Minds in the Archive', we, a group of neurodivergent humanities academics, will be running a series of research and knowledge exchange workshops at archives around the UK, and online, in summer 2025. These workshops will bring together archive users and professionals to share archive experiences, identify potential barriers for neurodivergent users, and creatively 're-imagine' archival spaces through
zine-making.
The first workshop will be hosted by:
• Imperial War Museums, Lambeth Road, London - 4 July 2025, 10am to 4:15pm.
We can fund limited travel expenses
for participants, including support worker travel and
overnight accommodation where necessary.
For detailed information about our London-based workshop, accessibility, and what participation will involve, please see this link. Deadline for application is Wednesday 4 June at 5pm.
Future workshops will be held in Cardiff, Liverpool, and online - please sign up to our mailing list for more information in due course.
Please feel free to get in touch with further questions at divergentmindsarchive@gmail.com.
All the very best,
Ria, Lucie, and Ann-Marie
The project is led by Dr Ria Cheyne, Liverpool John Moores University; Dr Ann-Marie Foster, Robert Gordon University/Imperial War Museums; and Dr Lucinda Matthews-Jones, Liverpool John Moores University. Our partners are Glamorgan Archives, Gwent Archives, History UK.
Imperial War Museums, Liverpool Record Office, Scottish Council on Archives, and Tyne and Wear Archives.
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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🚨NEWS🚨 Government scraps higher-level apprenticeship funding We are concerned at the implications of this for Disabled people, who face additional barriers in employment and education - we should not be cut off from funded training by an age limit www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/governm...
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WotSeries ❤️📖📺🤞 @wotseries.com · 28/05/2025
🚨 This is the first-ever Wot Wednesday without The Wheel of Time in production. Let’s make it count. 💡 Your prompt for today: Share what the Wheel of Time means to you #️⃣ Use hashtags: #SaveWOT #WotWednesday #TheWheelOfTime
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
“All of us are continually gathering ideas, stories, glimpses, encounters that we can sift through to find constellations of meaning.” @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social‬ on finding yourself and 20 years of A Field Guide to Getting Lost.
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20 Years of Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself
One of the great joyful mysteries of writing comes when work whose creation arose from the writer’s innermost desires somehow meets those of its readers. I let this book loose in the world with no …
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Monastic Archaeology Field School- Scotland @mafs-scot.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The countdown is on and are students arrive in less than two weeks! So what will they get up to? Explore some of the themes our students will engage in during the 4-week field school. #Archaeology #FieldSchool #Scotland #LindoresAbbey #Fife #Heritage mafs-scot.org/field-school...
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Field School Themes
Excavation and Field Work Excavation is how archaeologists learn about people and places in the past. Traces are left by ruins, material culture, biological remains – both human and environme…
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Rant Al’More @rantalmore.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This really opened the floodgates 😭 #TheWheelofTime youtu.be/6Gtu5g-VNjQ?...
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Help Us Save The Best Fantasy Show of 2025 - #SaveWoT
YouTube video by Unraveling the Pattern
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
"It is a mystery what these hills may have looked like hundreds of years ago – no detailed historical records exist." ... Geoarchaeologists assemble!
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 25/05/2025
In case you missed it: #AutINSAR is a much-needed discussion between autistic people, autism researchers, family members, and professionals about priorities in autism research. This year it happened during #INSAR2025. Recap at TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2025/05/what... #autism #neurodiversity
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What Autistic People Want From Autism Research: AutINSAR 2025
AutINSAR is a much-needed discussion between autistic people and autism researchers about priorities in autism research.
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Kimm Curran @kimmcurran.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
CANMORE is going - much to the dismay of many - and here is a tribute to its incredible, far-reaching contribution. CANMORE is part of our heritage and it’s loss will have lingering effects. #DigitalArchaeology #Heritage #History ##Scotland
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James Hamilton @lixmount.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I thought someone should write a brief tribute to Scotland's online archives Canmore and Scran (and their other superb counterparts) in their last days before the move to Trove - and it might as well be me. So here it is. www.jameshamilton.co.uk/uncategorize...
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Celebrating Canmore | by James Hamilton
Unique in the WorldThe announcement this spring that Canmore, Scran and others in the roster of online archives and repositories run by Historic Environment ...
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 25/05/2025
On successfully navigating life after a late autism diagnosis: “If I were to advise anyone in a similar situation, I would say, ‘give yourself the time to relearn who you are and adjust to your diagnosis’.” www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/05/21/d... #autism #neurodiversity
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‘I was diagnosed late with autism – here’s how I learned to deal with burnout’ - Community Care
A neurodivergent social worker discusses their journey after a late autism diagnosis and the changes they made to work without burning out
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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
A medieval mystery resurfaces. The Lough Kinale Shrine, once lost in an Irish lake, is now conserved. Explore the story of this sacred artefact and its journey through time, then see it in person from 30th May, 2025, at the National Museum of Ireland. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
The front of the Lough Kinale Book-Shrine (National Museum of Ireland)
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The shadow of the Long Neolithic provides shelter for stories. Its umbra houses an ecosystem of folklore grown from our complex relationship between place and need for narrative. The landscape's lithic story engines have never stopped turning. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 25/05/2025
Check out Lavender’s Nonspeaker Library — it is a collection of posts, writing, art, poetry, researcher, and more by and about nonspeaking people and people with communication disabilities. www.tumblr.com/nonspeakerli...
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@nonspeakerlibrary · Lavender’s Nonspeaker Library
Welcome! This is my collection of posts, writing, art, poetry, research and everything else by and about nonspeaking people, and others with communication disabilities. Because our work and our lives…
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Kimm Curran @kimmcurran.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This week keep on handing out good things. 💚 Delighted to have been selected as a "Mentor" in the Neurodivergent Humanities Network. NDHum is off to a great start & doing wonderful things. Give them a follow! @ndhumanities.bsky.social ndhumanities.com/mentorship-s... #NDHum #Neuroodivergent
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Mentorship Scheme 2025 – ND Hums
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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Normalise writing a nice quick note to scholars literally every time you read and like their work. Our world is small and getting smaller. We need encouragement.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The cool thinge aboute writinge ys that it ys absolutely difficult and payneful but then when you are done you looke back and you... still doubt what you wrote. And yet even wyth all that, so much bettir than Gen AI. To wryte ys to risk, and thus to joyne all othir wryteres yn risk and possibilitye.
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Kimm Curran @kimmcurran.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Truth.
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Kimm Curran @kimmcurran.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This is excellent—superb 👩‍🍳😘 As an over sharer I have become very skilled at seeing the eye glaze, boredom look in people. The guilt and shame of being a person whose brain can’t shut off, the need to get all out, and share everything can be really sucky.
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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Calling all maritime, coastal and intertidal archaeologists, you can support these students from the GAZAMAP project to complete their degrees
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